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Black Mountain College Review

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Black Mountain College

  • Address: 375 Lake Eden Rd., 5 mi west of Black Mountain, Black Mountain, NC | Map It
  • Phone: 828/686-3885

Fodor's Review:

Originally housed in rented quarters at nearby Blue Ridge Assembly, in 1941 Black Mountain College moved across the valley to its own campus at Lake Eden, where it remained until it closed in 1953. The school's buildings were originally designed by the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, but at the start of World War II the college turned to an American architect, Lawrence Kocher, and several intriguing buildings resulted, including one known as "The Ship," which still stands, with murals by Breuer. Among the students who enrolled at Black Mountain College in the 1940s were Arthur Penn, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Leo Herlihy. Today, the site is a privately owned 550-acre summer camp for boys. Although the site of Black Mountain College usually is closed to the public, during the Lake Eden Festival, a music and arts festival in mid-May and mid-October, you can visit the grounds, either on a one-day pass or for weekend camping. Other times of the year, you can rent a cabin on the grounds for overnight stays. The Ship building and other campus buildings are viewable from Lake Eden Road. There's a small museum devoted to Black Mountain College in Asheville.

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